Rats are among the most reviled animals, but perhaps they're the most misunderstood, too.
Britain's Rat Population has exploded 200 percent to an estimated 80 million, and they're growing resistant to pesticides.
The Daily Telegraph quotes University of Huddersfield Professor Robert Smith who says natural selection has given rise to a "super rat" who can pass on their poison-resistant genes to their babies.
A pile of $20 bills gnawed at by rodents has been sent to the U.S. mint, and a man from Jackson, Mo., is expecting to be reimbursed $1,000. He'd left the loot in a vinyl bag, and critters got to it after a flood in his home. His local bank manager was kind enough to help him sort through the feces-covered mess.
It's gotten so bad, even the cats are complaining.
Rabbit-sized, land mine-sniffing African rats may be a magnet for tourism in Mozambique, after hotel owners noted that visitors like to watch them at work. "People would come and see the rats work in the field with the trainers," one hostel operator told
The Georgia Strait Times. "We could sell T-shirts, and the tourists could have their photos taken with them."
